Imagine you are at the edge of the sea on a day when it is difficult to say where the land ends and the sea begins and where the sea ends and the sky begins. Sea kayaking lets you explore these and your own boundaries and broadens your horizons. Sea kayaking is the new mountaineering.

Sunday, August 03, 2008

Shaggy dogs on Eilean Imersay, Islay

The SE coast of Islay is a maze of reefs and islands. Some of the channels dry out as the tide recedes like this one inside Eilean Mhic Mhaolmhoire.

3 comments:

Not sure how I found your BLOG but I love it!!I'm renovating my very old kitchen in alexandria,vajust outside of washington d.c. but I wish I was sea kayaking where these photos were taken.brilliant!!This is just a great blog, who needs a vacation!!

Two comments from two blokes closer to each other than they are to the Sound of Sleat! I live in Takoma Park, Maryland, just to the NE of Washington, DC, and I followed the link on http://www.gla.ac.uk/medicalgenetics/seakayaking.htm. I'm hoping to move to Scotland in the spring/summer of 2009 with my wife, a plan we've been working on for several years now. Your pages keep me in hope through the long, hot summer (past midnight here, and it's still 23*C and steamy).

I had the pleasure of doing a sailing course last September from Ballachulish to the Sound of Mull, down Loch Sunart, into Loch Spelve, up the Sound of Kerrera, through the Lynn of Lorn, and back up Loch Linnhe. So a lot of the places you show in your south or Ardnamurchan section look very familiar, just from a vantage point slightly lower to the waves! :-)

I hope to see many of the other places you've traveled, one of these days.